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In reply to the discussion: Do you support Drone warfare or not? [View all]fadedrose
(10,044 posts)46. It shouldn't be done routinely - SNL
If there's enough information found by using a drone, maybe send in a specialist.
Some of these highly-trained people get turned on in a scary situation, gawd lov'em. If they can get volunteers, get the bad guy that way. They'll kill less people.
On SNL last week, a replay, they showed a cartoon of drones blowing up a building, farm, whatever, and they demolished it. Then a little sheep managed to come out, the drones returned and fired at the poor sheep till it was pulvarized - and this was SNL. Frightening but educational...
SNL is sometimes right on the mark.
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The AUMF is about as close to a declaration of war against a non-state actor as you can get.
pampango
Feb 2013
#23
It's OK Ken. Refried beans are only an optional component of the ordnance package.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#28
Why should our glorious best-and-brightest be endangered when killing people en masse?
NoOneMan
Feb 2013
#13
Avoiding 'messing up the scenery' is why you would do it virtually. This gets better and better.
wandy
Feb 2013
#42
Drone warfare is too video-game derived, utterly dehumanizing its targets. End drone warfare utterly
Fire Walk With Me
Feb 2013
#26
Always no. Too cheap, too little blowback, too clean, to few involved between order and execution.
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#32
Actually, it isn't. Every conceivable option was listed, and without editorial comment.
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#41